Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest cloud service provider. This Wednesday, AWS was found by a federal jury in Illinois to have infringed on the data storage technology patent rights of technology company Kove and was ordered to pay $525 million.

The jury found that AWS has infringed on Kove's three patents, including the technology that Kove claims to have become an essential part of Amazon's cloud computing division's ability to store and retrieve large amounts of data.

An Amazon spokesperson stated that the company does not agree with this ruling and intends to appeal.

Courtland Reichman, the main lawyer of Kove, described the ruling as "a tribute to creativity and an affirmation of the importance of protecting intellectual property rights for start-ups and Internet giants".

Kove, headquartered in Chicago, filed a lawsuit against Amazon in the Northern District Court of Illinois in 2018. The company claims in the lawsuit that it pioneered high-performance cloud storage technology several years before the birth of cloud computing.

Kove claims that AWS's Amazon S3 storage services, DynamoDB database services, and other products have infringed on its cloud storage patents. On Wednesday, the jury agreed with Kove's view that AWS had infringed on the three Kove patents mentioned above, but rejected Kove's claim that AWS had intentionally infringed its rights.

AWS denies these allegations and claims that these patents are invalid.

Kove filed the same lawsuit against Google last year, claiming that Google had infringed on the same batch of patents, and the case is still under trial.